In this paper we consider a class of integral functionals whose integrand satisfies growth conditions of the type $$\begin{array}{c}f(x,\eta ,\xi )\ge a\left(x\right)\frac{{\left|\xi \right|}^p}{{(1+|\eta \left|\right)}^{\alpha }}-b_1\left(x\right){\left|\eta \right|}^{{\beta }_1}-g_1\left(x\right),\\ f(x,\eta ,0)\le b_2\left(x\right){\left|\eta \right|}^{{\beta }_2}+g_2\left(x\right),\end{array}$$ where$0\le \alpha <p$, $1\le {\beta }_1<p$, $0\le {\beta }_2<p$, $\alpha +{\beta }_i\le p$, $a\left(x\right)$, $b_i\left(x\right)$, $g_i\left(x\right)$ ($i=1$, $2$) are nonnegative functions satisfying suitable summability assumptions. We prove the existence and boundedness of minimizers of such a functional in the class of functions belonging to the weighted Sobolev space $W^{1,p}\left(a\right)$ , which assume a boundary datum $u_0\in W^{1,p}\left(a\right)\cap L^{\mathrm{\infty }}\left(\mathrm{\Omega }\right)$.

Let $\mathrm{\Omega }$ be a bounded open subset of $R^n$, $n>4$, of class $C^2$ . Let $u\in H^2\left(\mathrm{\Omega }\right)$ a solution of elliptic non linear non variational system $$a\left(x,u,Du,H\left(u\right)\right)=b\left(x,u,Du\right)$$ where $a\left(x,u,\mu ,\xi \right)$ and $b\left(x,u,\mu \right)$ are vectors in $R^N$, $N\ge 1$, measurable in $x$, continuous in $\left(u,\mu ,\xi \right)$ and $\left(u,\mu \right)$ respectively. Here, we demonstrate that if $b\left(x,u,\mu \right)$ has limit controlled growth, if $a\left(x,u,\mu ,\xi \right)$ is of class $C^1$ in $\xi$ and satisfies the Campanato condition $\left(A\right)$ and, together with $\frac{\partial a}{\partial \xi }$, certain continuity assumptions, then the vector $Du$ is partially Hölder continuous for every exponent $\alpha <1-\frac{n}{p}$.

In this paper we consider two-dimensional quasilinear equations of the form $\text{div}\left(a\left(\left|\nabla u\right|\right)\nabla u\right)+f\left(u\right)=0$ and study the properties of the solutions u with bounded and non-vanishing gradient. Under a weak assumption involving the growth of the argument of $\nabla u$(notice that $\text{arg}\left(\nabla u\right)$ is a well-defined real function since $\left|\nabla u\right|>0$ on ${\mathbb{R}}^2$) we prove that $u$ is one-dimensional, i.e., $u=u\left(\nu \cdot x\right)$ for some unit vector $\nu$. As a consequence of our result we obtain that any solution $u$ having one positive derivative is one-dimensional. This result provides...

We prove regularity results for real valued minimizers of the integral functional $\int f\left(x,u,Du\right)$ under non-standard growth conditions of $p\left(x\right)$-type, i.e. $$L^{-1}{\left|z\right|}^{p\left(x\right)}\le f\left(x,s,z\right)\le L\left(1+{\left|z\right|}^{p\left(x\right)}\right)$$ under sharp assumptions on the continuous function $p\left(x\right)>1$.